Fare Well 118
First they came for the Jews 106
For the present there is just one moon 190
For the Spartan Dead at Thermopylai 176
Forget 183
Freight 103
From time to time our love is like a sail 87
Frost at Midnight 192
Full Moon and Little Frieda 158
Gather ye rose-buds while ye may 179
Give me a man that is not dull 32
Glory be to God for dappled things 10
The Good Morrow 167
Green 188
Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths 63
Half a league, half a league 111
Happiness (Dunn) 59
Happiness (Carver) 184
Happy the Man 94
Happy the man, and happy he alone 94
He turns not back who is bound to a star 120
He who binds to himself a joy 27
He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven 63
Heaven on Earth 154
Henry V 78
Heraclitus 28
High Flight (An Airman’s Ecstasy) 7
High up in the apple tree climbing I go 100
Hinterhof 29
His Desire 32
History 23
Hold fast to dreams 187
Holy Island 140
Home-Thoughts, from Abroad 30
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways 65
How happy is he born and taught 146
How should I not be glad to contemplate 143
How straight it flew, how long it flew 56
How strange to think of giving up all ambition! 64
The Hug 18
‘I Am’ 135
I am the ship in which you sail 103
I Am the Song 107
I am the song that sings the bird 107
I am – yet what I am none cares or knows 135
I believe in the soul; so far 161
I envy not in any moods 14
I have been young, and now am not too old 70
I have seen flowers come in stony places 76
I know that I shall meet my fate 115
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 125
I like to get off with people 71
I May, I Might, I Must 102
I saw a Peacock with a fiery tail 3
i thank You God for most this amazing 148
I, Too 97
I, too, sing America 97
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow 62
I wander’d lonely as a cloud 136
I went out to the hazel wood 26
I wish I could show you 42
I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I 167
If – 104
If ever two were one, then surely we 137
If I can stop one Heart from breaking 69
If I should die, think only this of me 36
If suddenly you do not exist 138
If you ask me ‘What’s new?’, I have nothing to say 37
If you can keep your head when all about you 104
If you sit down at set of sun 152
If you think you are beaten, you are 49
If you will tell me why the fen 102
In Memoriam A. H. H. 14
In summer’s heat, and mid-time of the day 41
In the bleak mid-winter 72
In the pathways of the sun 86
Inniskeen Road: July Evening 185
Invictus 58
Iris 33
An Irish Airman Foresees His Death 115
It is summer, and we are in a house 170
It was your birthday, we had drunk and dined 18
June 1966 180
Just before winter 164
Late Fragment 195
Laugh, and the world laughs with you 85
Leisure 150
Let me put it this way 114
Let the day grow on you upward 178
Let us go then, you and I 43
Life’s Variety 130
Little Gidding 196
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock 42
Loveliest of trees, the cherry now 92
Lying flat in the bracken of Richmond Park 180
Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota 162
Machines 40
Markings 91
Milton 60
Modern Love 170
Morning has broken 21
Much have I travell’d in the realms of gold 98
My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up 16
My Brilliant Image 42
My heart is like a singing bird 189
My Heart Leaps Up 66
My heart leaps up when I behold 66
New Every Morning 19
No Man is an Island, entire of it self 20
No, the candle is not crying, it cannot feel pain 122
Nothing is so beautiful as spring 159
Now that it is night 154
Now welcome Summer with thy sunne. soft 149
Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth 7
Oh, to be in England 30
The Old Stoic 177
The Old World 161
On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer 98
On grim estates at dawn, on college tracks 52
On His Blindness 171
Once I am sure there’s nothing going on 173
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more 78
One Art 75
Our boat was slow to reach Bethsaida; winds oppressed us 110
Our Own Land 13
Out of the night that covers me 58
Over my head, I see the bronze butterfly 162
Ovid’s Elegies 41
Pass the tambourine, let me bash our praises 108
The Passionate Shepherd to his Love 155
The Peace of Wild Things 168
Penelope 86
The Peninsula 11
Pied Beauty 10
Pippa’s Song 54
Portrait of a Child 166
Prayer 90
Prayer the Churches banquet, Angels age 90
The Present 190
Prometheus Unbound 144
Pushing Forty 164
The Railway Children 160
Reflections on Ice-Breaking 172
Report on Experience 70
Richard II 101
Riches I hold in light esteem 177
Riders 109
The Road Not Taken 68
Roundel 149
Say not the struggle nought availeth 165
Seaside Golf 56
She Walks in Beauty 186
She walks in beauty, like the night 186
Should auld acquaintance be forgot 38
A Shropshire Lad 92
Silent comrade of the distances 67
So early it’s still almost dark out 184
Soar, Don’t Settle 96
Soar, don’t settle for earth 96
The Soldier 36
Solitude 85
Some Saian sports my splendid shield 57
Some say that love’s a little boy 181
Sometimes 4
Sometimes things don’t go, after all 4
The Song of Solomon 16
The Song of Wandering Aengus 26
Sonnets from the Portuguese 65
Spring 159
Stay near to me and I’ll stay near to you 29
Still I Rise 8
Talent 151
Tell them in Lakedaimon, passerby 176
The Tempest 22
The Angel that presided o’er my birth 131
The art of losing isn’t hard to master 75
The bicycles go by in twos and threes 185
The dawn was apple-green 188
The first blossom was the best blossom 153
The free bird leaps 125
The Frost performs its secret ministry 192
The sea is calm to-night 127
The surest thing there is is we are riders
109
The trees are coming into leaf 142
The year’s at the spring 54
There is a kind of love called maintenance 129
They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead 28
Thinking 49
Thinking of England 80
This is the word tightrope. Now imagine 151
This royal throne of kings, this sceptered isle 101
Thoughts in a Garden 141
To have stood on the Arctic island 116
To my Dear and Loving Husband 137
To see a World in a Grain of Sand 51
To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite 144
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time 179
Today 23
The Trees 142
Two Cures for Love 93
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood 68
Unconscious of amused and tolerant eyes 166
Up-Hill 50
Upon Westminster Bridge 12
Variation on a Theme by Rilke 157
Voice 31
The Waking 62
Walk on, through the wind 15
Warning to Children 88
Watering the Horse 64
Waving 34
The Way Things Are 122
The Way We Live 108
We don’t wear it in sacred amulets on our chests 13
We marked the pitch: four jackets for four goalposts 91
We Two Boys Together Clinging 119
Wedding 87
What I spent I had 191
What If This Road 153
What if this road, that has held no surprises 153
What is this life if, full of care 150
What we call the beginning is often the end 196
What wondrous life is this I lead! 141
When despair for the world grows in me 168
When I am sad and weary 61
When I consider how my light is spent 171
When I lie where shades of darkness 118
When I was One 17
When the Present has latched its postern behind my tremulous stay 77
When we climbed the slopes of the cutting 160
When you have nothing more to say, just drive 11
Why do we grumble because a tree is bent 130
Yes. I remember Adlestrop 145
You may write me down in history 8
You’ll Never Walk Alone 15
You’re 163
About the Author
William Sieghart has had a distinguished career in publishing and the arts. He founded Forward Publishing in 1988 and subsequently the Forward Poetry Prizes and National Poetry Day. He has edited Poems of the Decade (2001 and 2011) and, annually since 1993, The Forward Book of Poetry.
Copyright
First published in 2012
by Faber and Faber Ltd
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This ebook edition first published in 2012
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Introduction and selection © William Sieghart, 2012
Foreword © Sebastian Faulks, 2012
Individual poems © the authors
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